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Idea: Document how to mirror Ubuntu Pro packages? #2987

Closed stdevel closed 5 months ago

stdevel commented 7 months ago

Hi community, I recently stumbled upon a request where synchronizing Ubuntu Pro packages was required. I had a look at the service and figured out how to mirror these packages: https://cstan.io/en/post/2024/04/ubuntu-pro-mirror/

TL;DR: You will need to extract a bearer token and GPG key while the repository URLs are well-known. Putting this together results in the possibility to mirror these packages.

Would you be interested in a PR that adds these information to the Katello documentation? I'm asking because I don't know whether you want to see these information in the documentation as they can be used to misuse the Ubuntu Pro offering. On the other hand, this can also happen when mirroring RHEL or SLES packages.

Let me know, what you think - happy to help with a PR.

maximiliankolb commented 7 months ago

Hey Christian, we already have orcharhino docs on how to synchronize Ubuntu ESM repositories: https://docs.orcharhino.com/or/docs/sources/guides/ubuntu/managing_content/importing_content.html#Synchronizing_Ubuntu_Extended_Life_Support_Content Do you have something similar in mind for Ubuntu Pro?

stdevel commented 7 months ago

That looks exactly like the documentation I was going to write. Had only a look at the Katello documentation, but not at the Orcharhino pages. Ubuntu Pro basically consists of ESM packages and some additional offers (e.g. Kernel Live Patching, FIPS and USG).

Do you want to share these instructions with the Foreman documentation? Would be great to also have them in the upstream documentation.

maximiliankolb commented 7 months ago

Yes, I can create an upstream PR within the next two weeks.

May 17th: I have not forgotten about this!

stdevel commented 5 months ago

Ohai @maximiliankolb, I hope you're fine - do you have any update for us? :)

maximiliankolb commented 5 months ago

Hey @stdevel

I finally got around to creating a PR: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-documentation/pull/3075 Please let me know what you think.

stdevel commented 5 months ago

Looks good to me!

maximiliankolb commented 5 months ago

Is "Ubuntu ESM" more is less identical to Ubuntu Pro? Or is it a subset? Should we somehow mention "Ubuntu Pro" next to ESM?